abound
verb/əˈbaʊnd/UK/əˈbaʊnd/US
Etymology
* First attested around 1325. * From Middle English abounden, abounde, from Old French abonder, abunder, from Latin abundāre (“overflow”), which comes from ab (“from, down from”) + undō (“surge, swell, rise in waves, move in waves”), from unda (“wave”).
Definitions
To be full to overflowing
To be full to overflowing; to bristle.
To be wealthy.
To be highly productive.
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To be present or available in large numbers or quantities
To be present or available in large numbers or quantities; to be plentiful.
- Wild animals abound wherever man does not stake his claim.
- Moreouer, the Lawe entred, that the offence might abound: but where sinne abounded, grace did much more abound.
- One end of the east-west building is wet, the other windy, and at present there is smoke abounding, too; but these distressing yard elements can be completely excluded at each end by full-width folding doors [...].
To revel in.
To be copiously supplied.
- The wilderness abounds in traps.
- This pond abounds with fish.
- I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA